Middle name support

[Rui Wang]

Hi Team,

I don't see middle name is available when creating patient using FHIR R4 Create endpoint. Just to confirm, middle name is not supported on FHIR APIs, is that correct?

Thanks,

Rui

[Michele Mottini]

name,given is a list, so you can put middle names there

  - Michele

  CareEvolution Inc

[Rui Wang]

But then how do you decide which one in the array is first name and which is middle name when reading the patient object?

[Michele Mottini]

The first one is the first name  and the others are the middle names maybe?

  - Michele

  CareEvolution Inc 

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[Benjamin Eichhorn (Cerner)]

Hi,

Michele is correct. The first value in the "given" field is the name and the subsequent values are treated as the middle names.

Thanks,

Ben (Cerner)

[Max Philips (Cerner)]

Hi Rui,

What Ben mentioned is part of base FHIR: http://hl7.org/fhir/r4/datatypes-definitions.html#HumanName.given

Thanks,

Max (Cerner)

[Rui Wang]

Thanks all! That's helpful.

Since middle name and first name are both in given array,  does it mean I can only search by either middle or first but not both at the same time since search API only accept one given name parameter?

Thanks,

Rui

[Max Philips (Cerner)]

Hi Rui,

That's correct.

The Patient search parameter 'name' is a string type per FHIR: http://hl7.org/fhir/r4/patient.html#search

Sending in multiple 'name' values (i.e. comma-separated) to Cerner's sandbox server results in a 400 Bad Request with an OperationOutcome explaining the issue.

Thanks,

Max (Cerner)

[Rui Wang]

Thanks Max!

Rui